Daily Republican., 1887-02-23
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"On wednesday morning, Hsbrusry
10. betwsea mise and ten O'CLOCK, 1 WAS
81 my house. 1642 Richard street. II
wee II the kitchen, and Wakefield
dains came there TO see nae. and three
or four minutes after George WAllacs,
Or Wilson. eAne In. Wakefield Gaius
Was Sitting on the settes reading =
Paper, and WAS eating my break fast,
wilson came and knocked ct the door,
and Gains opened 1t for him.
"his hrst conversation was about
breaking up sone wagons. Gains did
nos talk much. After that Wilson said
no WAS coming IN again on Sunday and
going 10 bring my listle girl In from
Jenkintown and take her out riding. I
esked hia What time he would be In ON
sunday, and he said exactly at II
O'Clock. Then Gains said 70 me: tn
ne eoing with her now?" said: "I
don't know, and doa's care. a. long ~
l see my little girl"
struck George Wilson. Wilson kind of
ran back wards, as II he was LOOKING
for something, and Gains followed him
mp. Tnen they clinched and fought ell
over the kitchen and fell up against the
sewing machine. Then Wilson grab
bled up green obair that was standing
there and struck Gains on the head and
knocked him against the stair steps,
and from there he slid down to the
door. He struck him several times
moro with the chair while he lay on the
floor. He never got up again and mover
spoke
II came down the fteps and stepped
over Gains legs and said: George
Wilson, this 10 awful
"He said: We'll, he shan't get tho
best Of me. He struck me first.
Then Wilson pulled the carpet out
from under him, and I washed 1t out
and hung 10 on the line There was
some blood on ir, and some on the steps.
Then George Wilson grabbed hold OF
the body, and moved the coal scuttie
of the cellar steps and pulled and pushed
tho body down cellar. He went down
cellar, and went half way down the
steps. i said, what are you going to dc
with him?'
| He said: 4 am going TO take of his
Clothes, and he took them off and tied
them up. Isaw him pull his shirt over
bis head and take his other clothes on
1 went down CELLAR, and we stood there
and looked ct the body. He asked II
the cellar window was open, and be
wanted something 10 put In front Of it.
He couldn't And anything and then he
said he would 20 ont and would be back
In little while"
HOW THE BUfCHRRIHG WAS DoHE.
"He came back In about twenty min
utes. stood In the door ia the mean.
time. After he came back he had q
butchers oleaver. did not sec him
bring 1t In. l went up stairs and looked
through the stats OF the window TO sec
II any on3 was coming and he vent
down cellar. When he came up be
said: Il have got 1t all fixed now
went down cellar. The head Was wrap.
ped up In paper, the body WAS sitiin 2
up against the side Of the steps. The
legs and arms did not see. They were
underneath the steps.
'He said: Il am going out with thii
head and will bring something back q
wrap mp his body, and II you can make
away with that, want you to take Il
to Media, and l will get away with ths
res! Of It.
/ told him I couldn't take the bis
body. He said he had cut IL on very
short, and 1t wasn't heavy and the WAY
he would wrap 1. mp / would have nc
trouble. He says: We can get 1t all
out OF here 10 might II You help me
"rhen he " w'Apped up the body, and
agreed TO take 1t, but told him
didn't know the way to Aedis, that
only knew the way 10 Backs County,
and would take Is there. This wal
about IL O'Clock, and he went away.
stayed up stairs at the window until
o'0look or after, when be came back.
II was all dressed. He brought ths
body up from the cellar. I got an OLD
skirt OF Apnie's off the sewing ma
chine, and the shawl.strap out OF the
closet up stsirs. They belonged to Gains
II was too light for me TO 70 out yet
and be went down cellar and brought
up one OF the legs wrapped In M old
bag that he brought with him, and tool
IL out After he was gone started of
to the depot, and met him on Seven
teenih street. below Spruce. Hs said
L can't get In and / handed him my
key. He said. when will your hus
band be homer told him half past
eight. He said he would meet me al
the depot.
II took the $50 train and bought q
return ticket for Oorn walls Station, and
got cut 1t Eddinaton.
81 then went ou to fho bridge, se
down the bundle Of clothes and tool
the shawl strap and calico CT and
threw the body over In the water.
THE MURDERER CAPTURED.
In the meantime Dstsctives Miller
and Tate had succeeded In locating ths
man Wilson at the house of his aunt
Hannah Wallace, 1241 Lombard stro OF
and . watch WAS set upon the place
Shortly after six O'Clock Wilson wal
seen approaching the house, when he
was arrested ADd taken to the Central.
When taken before the Chief he Wal
told OF the charges upon which he had
been arrested, bat he persistently assert
ed that he knew nothing of the matter
Iexcept what he had read in the papers
when asked where he was on the da .
I0f Gains disappear anoo, he said he wss
at work all day, but his employers say
be was not about the place on that day
lard that when be ereturned on Thursda "
morning, ho explained his absence By
Isay ing he had been to Darby on bust
ness. He WAS locked up 10 o cell q
the Contra TO av ait hearing.
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